PERSONAL BEAUTY:

HOW TO CULTIVATE AND PRESERVE IT

IN

ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF HEALTH.

BY

D. G. BRINTON, M.D.,

EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER AND OF THE HALF-YEARLY
COMPENDIUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, LATE SURGEON U. S. V., AND

MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF THE ELEVENTH ARMY CORPS,

MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF PHILADELPHIA, ETC.

AND

GEO. H. NAPHEYS, M.D.,

CHIEF OF MEDICAL CLINIC OF THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE, MEMBER
OF THE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY, AUTHOR OF THE
"COMPENDIUM OF MODERN THERAPEUTICS," ETC. ETC.

RA778
B85

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

D. G. BRINTON, AND GEO. H. NAPHEYS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

COLLINS, PRINTER.

PREFACE.

SINCE the publication, now thirty odd years ago,
of the excellent little book of Dr. John Bell, we
do not know of any work in this country on Per-
sonal Beauty, written from the physician's point of
view. In Europe, on the other hand, the subject
has occupied some of the best writers in the pro-
fession; and in view of the vast increase in cos-
metic arts within the past few years, it must be
regarded as one of great public and professional,
as well as personal interest. We have endeavored
in the present volume to furnish such an abundance
of simple and harmless, yet efficient aids for the
toilet, that the dependence on secret and injurious
nostrums may be dispensed with, and the beauty
of the body cultivated more in accordance with
the principles of correct taste and sound health
than is.now the case.

THE AUTHORS.

155 NORTH NINTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.